Heather Peter Books
Books di Heather Peter con argomento History Medieval
The Restoration of Rome
Heather Peter
edizioni Oxford University Press collana Oxford Univ Pr (Hardcover) , 2014
In 476 AD, the last of Rome's emperors, known as "Augustulus," was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun's henchmen. With the imperial vestments dispatched to Constantinople, the curtain fell on the Roman empire in Western Europe, its territories divided among successor kingdoms constructed...
Empires and Barbarians
Heather Peter
edizioni Oxford University Press collana Oxford Univ Pr (Hardcover) , 2010
"Here is a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds--the undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated...